Young the Giant is just one of the acts billed for the Pacific Amphitheatre's Summer Concert Series' at the 2012 Orange County Fair.
The lineup offers genres of popular music that should resonate with different generations, ranging from reggae to country...

1. AUGUSTANA Augustana’s set at last year’s Musikfest as part of Counting Crows’ Traveling Circus and Medicine Show didn’t really give an indication of what the band can do. Oh, it had an emotional reading of its hit “Boston&...

“Say something once, why say it again?” Talking Heads sang in their song “Psycho Killer.” But in the case of new wave music from the early 1980s, there’s reason to saying it again. Because its bears repeating, and it’...

When you hear the music of hot hip-hopper Theophilus London, it’s clear that while he’s based in Brooklyn, N.Y., his sound isn’t typical of the inner-city rap that comes from that battle-scarred borough. Yes, the songs on London’...

You could argue The Psychedelic Furs were a band very specific to place in time – the 1980s, when their synthy new wave struck a particular chord with the trendy art-rock hipster crowd. Psychedelic Furs' Richard Butler in file photo...

When Squeeze stops Tuesday, July 17, at Sands Bethlehem Event Center for a concert with TheB-52s, it actually will be a return engagement of sorts for the iconic British new wave group. Squeeze, with Difford third from left Way back...

The B-52s, perhaps the most memorable and recognizable new wave band ever, have been out on the road for 35 years playing its quirky and endearing music . But until recently, the band didn’t have a live album in its...

It’s ironic that the fans who fell so hard for MGMT’s 2007 debut disc “Oracular Spectacular” were so ambivalent about its 2010 follow-up, “Congratulations,” saying the band was distancing itself from the electronic pop that made it popular. The truth...

A set of song lyrics have set off protests in Beirut, and angry women's rights activists in Syria have urged the local radio stations to take it off the air. The song at the heart of the controversy is "Jumhoriyet...

Electronic dance music is all the rage in L.A. these days, with electro and house DJs dropping beats at parties from Cinespace Tuesdays to Control Fridays at the Avalon. But some artists aren't content to just blast a big kick drum for the drunk masses and cal